BluePass: A Mobile Device Assisted Password Manager
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.10-1-2019.156244Keywords:
Authentication, Password, Password Manager, Two-factor AuthenticationAbstract
With the growing number of online accounts a user possesses, managing passwords has been unprecedentedly challenging. Password managers have emerged to help users managing their passwords. However, state-of-the-art cloud based password managers are vulnerable to data breach and a master password becomes a single point of failure. To address these security vulnerabilities, we propose BluePass, a password manager that stores the password vault (i.e., the set of all the encrypted site passwords of a user) locally in a mobile device and a decryption key to the vault in the user computer. BluePass partially inherits the security characteristics of two-factor authentication by requiring both a mobile device and a master password to retrieve and decrypt the site passwords. BluePass leverages short-range nature of Bluetooth to automatically retrieve site passwords and fill the login fields, providing a hand-free user experience.
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